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Railway Eye (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Telegrammed by our man at 222 Marylebone Road Oak leaves have been added to Lord Adonis' Орден Ленина in recognition of another heroic act of railway statism that will get them dancing round their handbags in Essex. Andy baby has stepped in where even uber-privatiser Richard Bowker feared to tread and announced that when c2c is refranchised...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Professor Stuart Hazeldine warns only Scottish Power can deliver carbon capture and storage within the government's timetable. From BusinessGreen.com , part of the Guardian Environment Network The UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition is "dead on its feet" with only one of the three projects in the running capable of delivering a full scale working demonstration plant by the...
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
An application to allow the former Post Office in Calcutta Road to be used as a place of worship will be opposed by The British National Party. Although details of exactly which religous group is attempting to move into the building is not clear at the moment, suspicions are it may be a mosque. Muslims in Thurrock have been complaining for some time that they have outgrown the old toilets in Grays...
Real cycling (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Hidden away corncrake-like in City back streets, crankingly audible but not visible, Fenchurch Street Station is the most obscure of London's mainline terminuses, and not even connected to the London Underground system. It also has surely the smallest concourse: my mum has made bigger sandwiches. In fact, for many of us it's a surprise to find it actually exists. I'd never heard anyone mention it,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Professor Catherine Mitchell asks "why did E.ON postpone its Kingsnorth plan?" ( Kingsnorth's coal bluff , 9 October). The answer lies in Brussels. On 1 October the European commission presented a technical committee of the council of ministers with its recommendations for seven carbon capture and storage projects across Europe that should each receive a €180m initial EU subsidy, the...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
Mangapps Farm Railway Museum at Burnham-on-Crouch (on the Dengie peninsula) celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. The collection is that of farmer and enthusiast, Mr Jolly. It tells of the story of railways predominantly in Essex and East Anglia and occupies the site where steam or diesel never ran but now has a single track of ¾ mile linking Mangapps station with Old Heath (previously...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/09/2009
Unemployed at 16, Katie Jarvis had no idea what the future held – until a chance meeting with a casting agent won her the lead role in Andrea Arnold's new film, Fish Tank. Katie Jarvis was having a right 'mare that day. She had been unemployed since leaving school a few months earlier, shortly after her 16th birthday, and her mum was forever on her case: "Go and get your job, girl, go on,...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 02/09/2009
1825: Palmer’s railway plan for Essex 1834: Grand Eastern Counties railway plan a route between London and Norwich via Ipswich 1836 (4 July): Act of Parliament approved – on same day as route from London to Cambridge 1837: Construction begins out of London 1839: Route opened between Mile End and Romford 1840: Route extended, now open between Shoreditch and Brentwood 1841: Colchester became...
Blackmore Area Local History (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
The following is taken from Revd. Alfred Suckling’s book, ‘Memorials of the antiquities and architecture, family history and heraldry of the County of Essex’ (John Weale, London, 1845). The etymology of this name plainly refers to works of Roman construction, though it is now impossible to determine their precise appellation. Camden, however, has not scrupled to fix the Caesaromagus...
Inside Track - Breaking News Blog (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
Fourth Annual Windsor Shootout returns this weekend. SPARTA, ONTARIO - The Fourth Annual Windsor Shootout returns to St. Thomas Dragway this weekend August 21, 22 and 23. The weekend will start with a free Test & Tune for the four Heads Up classes Friday afternoon from 1 to 5. Friday night will feature Performance Unlimited Street Legal racing from 6 to 10. The True Street class will also be run...
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Concerned residents in Tilbury have complained to police regarding black gangs congretating outside their properties late at night only to be told that nothing can be done unless they are guilty of an offence. This comes despite martial law being imposed on white youths who congregate in groups of two or more. Further violence over the weekend had broken out as two local men were attacked for being...
The Rose Claims Blog (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
Victims of the Marco Polo Cruise ship sickness outbreak have been urged to take professional advice before accepting any payout from the cruise ship operator. Experts in travel law have advised passengers who were ill onboard the Marco Polo, where an outbreak of Norovirus occurred, just two days into the cruise, to think very carefully before accepting any offer of a refund from the tour operator,...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Firefighters were tackling a blaze at a power station today after crews were called to the Tilbury facility, in Essex.
icWales (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Firefighters are tackling a blaze at Tilbury power station in Essex.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 29/07/2009
Firefighters are tackling a blaze at Tilbury power station in Essex.
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